Join Leaf-Chronicle in lending a hand to Imagination Library

Imagination Library Books from Birth program has doubled in number of participants in last few years, but funding for the program hasn't. Here's what the program does to help families, and what the community can do to support it.

Imagination Library needs your help. This program, which sends a free book to every child in Montgomery County once a month regardless of income, has seen a doubling in the children it serves in the last few years, from 5,000 in 2014 to 10,000 today.

That's good news, but the dramatic growth in the program needs dramatic growth in local support to help it continue.

Imagination Library was voted the Leaf-Chronicle Readers Choice 2017 Favorite Local Social Service Agency. As part of that, they've received a $10,000 grant from The Leaf-Chronicle through the Gannett Foundation.

To further help the Imagination Library meet its funding needs, The Leaf-Chronicle for the next 12 months will regularly feature the names of major donors to the program (with their permission of course). Here's how it will work:

Donors, of $1,000 or more:

Included in an ongoing published list of supporters.

Sponsors, making an annual commitment of $5,000 or more:

Included in an ongoing published list of supporters.

Photo of the donors published in The Leaf-Chronicle.

Partners, making an annual commitment of $10,000 or more:

Included in an ongoing published list of supporters.

Photo of the donors published in The Leaf-Chronicle.

A half-page thank you advertisement in The Leaf-Chronicle.

Please encourage your civic club, business or church to join in the effort and help this important program continue.